INTRODUCTION: Internship is supervised work that trains a healthcare professional for independent work. It lasts 12 months. The professional exam is conducted orally. It consists of two parts, more precisely the general and specialist part. The general part of the exam includes: Constitutional regulation of the Republic of Croatia, Health Care Act and Mandatory Health Insurance Act, Labor relations and pension insurance. The professional part of the exam is different for all healthcare professionals, and for physiotherapists it includes: kinesitherapy and physical therapy. RESEARCH GOAL: The main goal of the research was to analyze the attitudes and experiences of physiotherapists regarding internship. The specific objectives of the research are: do physiotherapists think that the duration of the internship should be reduced from 12 months to 6 months, to examine whether the professional exam causes stress among physiotherapists, do they think that the professional exam should be abolished and to compare the degree of satisfaction with the internship of the physiotherapists they have performed internship before the pandemic and during the pandemic with the COVID-19 virus. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The research was conducted using a questionnaire during July and August 2022. The criteria for the inclusion of respondents in the research are: physiotherapists who completed an internship from 2011 to the present, physiotherapists who passed the professional exam from 2011 to the present, physiotherapists aged 18 and over. RESULTS: 200 respondents participated in the research, of which 81% were female and 19% were male. The age of the respondents is from 20 to 48 years, and the average age is 28.82. The accepted hypothesis is: "For physiotherapists, passing the professional exam causes a high level of stress". The rejected hypotheses are: "Physiotherapists believe that the duration of internship should be reduced from 12 months to 6 months", "Physiotherapists believe that the professional exam should be abolished" and "Physiotherapists who did internship before the COVID-19 virus pandemic are more satisfied with their internship but physiotherapists who did internships during the COVID-19 pandemic." CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, physiotherapists tried to cancel or reduce the duration of internships. In this research, the results show that physiotherapists are not in favor of abolishing the internship, nor for reducing its duration. Internship remains mandatory and lasts 12 months. During the internship, interns still improve the skills needed for independent work.